biography
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| lived:
| (1532–1600)
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| biography:
| Squire, member of parliament, and justice of the peace, born near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, C England, UK. He married an heiress at the age of 16, and was knighted in 1565. He inherited a great Warwickshire estate in 1552 and rebuilt his manor-house at Charlecote (1558–9). He is said to have prosecuted Shakespeare for stealing deer from Charlecote Park, and may have been caricatured as Shakespeare's Justice Shallow in The Merry Wives of Windsor. |
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